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The ending animation felt more like tons of smooth in-betweens with somewhat detailed movement, more than motiontracing (rotoscoping?). They did a good job making sure the face moves slowly while the character does a motion so that it looks more eye-catching. But rotoscoped things have a bit more movement, than that, I think (you'd see the hair and stuff move a bit more).

Actually rotoscoped animation in general tend to look unnatural, which is not the case here. The smoothest movements are just done with more keys and in-betweens and are exaggerated forms of natural movements, rather than direct traces of them. Unlike 3D and mocap, with 2D many are prepared to tar and feather anyone who even suggests of rotoscoping. (but that didn't stop even Disney from doing it).

Of course, I'd need a bigger view of the dance sequence to tell for certainty...but I also think they might have purposefully shrunk the dance sequence because they couldn't feasibly draw as much detail and still make the motion seem realistic.

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Originally Posted by Vexx

boy that brought back memories of my high school German language class movie project ... we did a parody (3 stooges style) of the Third Reich giving a "everything is a-ok" news conference as Allied tanks were roaring by in the background and bombs dropped on us.

Yeah it reminded me too of my group german film project. We did Godzilla, complete with legos and puppets.

This may look on the surface like a bad student video project, but in fact, you know, it isn't. It intentionally reproduces the kinds of things that might happen in a bad student video, but it could only have been made by top professionals. Every frame is esthetically beautiful, and the visual timing, to say nothing of the comic timing, is superb.

And I for one am eager to see a serious side to the anime. In fact, the comedy is so perfect that I already see a serious underpinning. The beautiful enthusiasm of Haruhi in the face of this disaster is quite moving, as are Mikuru's hard work and serious intentions, and the powerless embarrassment of the members of the SOS. For me, this episode was able to touch something deep with its inspired silliness.

Fanboy enthusiasm, I know, but that's how I feel.

As for the animation of the rest of the series, I think we do see bits of what it's going to be like in the scenes of screening the film for the SOS club, and in the shot of the outside of the school. It's going to be great, but not as amazing as the dance sequence, which is a special deal for the ED.

I'm a little late coming to the party, but the hype convinced me to check out ep 1. And holy crap! That was brilliant!

It's satirical comedy that actually shows a good amount of subtlety... but it was hilarious and an extremely clever parady of anime. I was continuously lol'ing for the entire first half of the episode. Add in KyoAn's gorgeous animation, and this looks very much like a hit.

Very much looking forward to the next episodes because the glimpse of Suzumiya we got makes her seem like she's a real character. And considering the quality (and cleverness) of humour we saw from the first episode, I think it's fair to have high expectations for this one, no matter what road it goes down (eg, if it decides to be a character analysis of the main character, or just a high school comedy ala School Rumble).

I really didn't expect anything when I watched this. Right when the video started I noticed that this was going to be some sort of parody/homemade video. I thought "I bet some character is watching a video" but it kept going and going and I couldn't stop laughing at the quality of the direction. Like when Koizumi is holding the white paper thing and is in the shot or the craptastic final battle effects. It's genius-quality work on many levels, I can't wait for the future episodes!